Quotes by John H. McWhorter

John H. McWhorter

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Challenges

Excuse

Genuine

Barack Obama’s said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we’re looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he’s considered such a big deal is simply because he’s black.

Black

Nice

Reason

Ebonics – or black English, as I prefer to call it – is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Black

Dialect

Great Men

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Dressing Up

Lonely

Night

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying ‘victim,’ especially when you’re not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you’re not one.

Drama

Queens

Real

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn’t exactly hide it.

Issues

Leftists

Standards

I don’t think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

Barack

Thinking

Whole

I think even in today’s America, there’s a sense that there’s something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

America

Sexy

Thinking

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he’s able to connect with voters. And it’s that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

Doe

People

Thinking

If you took away the color of Barack Obama’s skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Color

Skins

Would Be

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Dressing Up

Excuse

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Feelings

Genuine

Great Men

Honesty

Ideas

Insecurity

Issues

Latin

Leftists

Letters

Lonely

Loving You

Mean

Men

Moving

Nice

Night

Past

People

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Priorities

Queens

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Racism

Racist

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Quotes by John H. McWhorter

John H. McWhorter

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Ebonics – or black English, as I prefer to call it – is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying ‘victim,’ especially when you’re not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you’re not one.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn’t exactly hide it.

I don’t think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

I think even in today’s America, there’s a sense that there’s something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he’s able to connect with voters. And it’s that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama’s skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

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